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Inequality 'highest for 20 years' - Save The Children
Save The Children says inequality harms children's life chances
Global inequalities in wealth are at their highest level for 20 years and are growing, according to a new report by Save The Children.
While the charity acknowledges progress has been made in goals such as reducing child mortality, the report says this has been uneven across income groups.
Continuing inequality could hinder further progress in improving living standards, the charity says.
The report comes ahead of a meeting of a high-level UN panel on poverty.
"In recent decades the world has made dramatic progress in cutting child deaths and improving opportunities for children; we are now reaching a tipping point where preventable child deaths could be eradicated in our lifetime," Save the Children's chief executive, Justin Forsyth, said.
"Unless inequality is addressed... any future development framework will simply not succeed in maintaining or accelerating progress. What's more, it will hold individual countries - and the world - back from experiencing real growth and prosperity," Mr Forsyth added.
Save The Children's researchers found that in most of the 32 developing countries they looked at, the rich had increased their share of national income since the 1990s.
In a fifth of the countries, the incomes of the poorest had fallen over the same period.
The gap has become particularly pronounced among children and affects their well-being as well as causing disparities in several key indicators, the charity says.
For example, it notes that in Tanzania, child mortality in the richest fifth of the population fell from 135 to 90 per 1,000 births over the research period, while the poorest fifth saw hardly any progress with a modest fall of 140 to 137 per 1,000 births.
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Comment number 55.
beammeup1st November 2012 - 21:52
@53 moggy "11 hours and only 53 comments..."
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Don't be silly there is another item regarding poverty and the PM. Most comments are there if you check.
Either are pointless!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Makonnen1st November 2012 - 21:46
Children are victim in developing countries where Governments Divide & Rule, lack of effective Global Population Control, Regional wars where mony is used to buy Guns instead Bread & the absence of clean water & Medication.The above creat Poverty which in turn makes childern suffer. The solution is Global narrowing of the Gap between the Rich & the Poor before IT knocks at Every Bodys' Door
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Removed1st November 2012 - 20:38
All this user's posts have been removed.Why?
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ColadadelCid1st November 2012 - 18:56
Don't look to the US if Romney wins the election. Romney has said he doesn't even care about poor US children or those without health insurance let alone the plight of children around the world. To the American millionair class such people are invisible because they are not greedy enough to be millionairs themselves and join the ruling capitalist oligarchy. The rest are exploited worker slaves.
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United Dreamer1st November 2012 - 17:56
It is a myth that global inequality doesn't impact on the poorest. Global inequality contributes to the increasing poverty of the poorest. Not just because of the impact of direct exploitation, but because they raise the cost of commodities for everyone.
Its also a myth that population growth is caused current by birth rates its caused by increasing longevity. Current birth rates are sustainable.
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